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Technical Perspectives

Countries’ Methane Action Plans Need to Do More to Account for a Just Transition

  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • National Climate Action
  • greenhouse gases
Workers on oil rig.
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • National Climate Action
  • greenhouse gases
Technical Perspectives
Wind ppwer behind the backdrop of a residential neighborhood in Palm Springs, CA
  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • U.S. Climate
Technical Perspectives
Several trains carrying freight gather on tracks
  • Climate
  • transportation
  • public transit
Technical Perspectives

How Advance Market Commitments and Contracts for Difference Can Help Create a Market for Green Industrial Products

  • Climate
  • industry
  • climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Bundles of steel bars stacked on shelves on a large storeroom floor.
  • Climate
  • industry
  • climate policy
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Technical Perspectives

What does ‘green’ procurement mean? Initiatives and standards for cement and steel.

  • Climate
  • infrastructure
  • industry
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Workers in hard hats installing energy
  • Climate
  • infrastructure
  • industry
  • low carbon development
  • Paying for Paris
Technical Perspectives

How to Refine California’s 2022 Scoping Plan for Achieving Climate Neutrality

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Climate Governance
  • U.S. Climate
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
Row of blue solar panels on green grass
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Climate Governance
  • U.S. Climate
  • carbon capture and storage (CCS)
Technical Perspectives

How Multilateral Development Banks Can Use Policy-Based Financing to Support Climate-Resilient Economies

  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Women scoop up dirty water from a polluted lake in Chad.
  • multilateral development banks
  • Climate
  • low carbon development
Technical Perspectives

Next Steps on the US Journey Toward Industrial Decarbonization

  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • GHG emissions
  • industry
  • low carbon development
Seven construction workers stand on building foundation of steel bars and cement
  • Climate
  • Climate Governance
  • GHG emissions
  • industry
  • low carbon development
Technical Perspectives

The Current State of Play on Financing Loss and Damage

  • adaptation
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
Flooding in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • adaptation
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
Technical Perspectives

5 Lessons from South Africa’s Just Transition Journey

  • renewable energy
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
  • climatewatch-pinned
An aerial shot of Cape Town, South Africa, against the backdrop of hills and mountains
  • renewable energy
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
  • climatewatch-pinned
Technical Perspectives

Can the Global Goal on Adaptation Be Locally Led?

  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • Climate
  • climate impacts
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • Climate
  • climate impacts
Technical Perspectives

3 Things to Know About the Adaptation Components of Countries’ Updated NDCs

  • Equity & Governance
  • adaptation
  • NDC
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
Workshop participants watching presentation.
  • Equity & Governance
  • adaptation
  • NDC
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • climatewatch-pinned
Technical Perspectives

4 Key Accountability Standards the SCF Progress Report Should Consider

  • climate finance
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
Government installed solar panels gives power to 36 houses in the village of Weepatando in Sumba island.
  • climate finance
  • Climate
  • adaptation finance
Technical Perspectives

5 Challenges the UNFCCC Must Overcome To Spur Climate Action

  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • Climate
  • United Nations
  • Paris Agreement
  • International Climate Action
The background of the opening plenary, COP26.
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
  • Climate
  • United Nations
  • Paris Agreement
  • International Climate Action
Technical Perspectives

Achieving Net-zero Emissions: Can the Build Back Better Act Help Get There?

  • Climate
  • net-zero emissions
  • National Climate Action
Wind turbines
  • Climate
  • net-zero emissions
  • National Climate Action
Technical Perspectives

Challenging Climate Negotiations Deliver Limited Progress Toward COP26

  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • COP26
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
Parque Eólico Camilo Ortega Saavedra wind farm in the Department of Rivas
  • Climate
  • Paris Agreement
  • COP26
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate finance
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: Designing Low-carbon Product Standards for Cement and Steel in the United States

  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • industry
  • low carbon development
  • Climate
  • GHG emissions
  • greenhouse gases
  • industry
  • low carbon development
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation into Development: Three Lessons from Kenya

  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • food security
Herders in Kenya.
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation finance
  • Water Security
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • Climate
  • food security
Technical Perspectives

INSIDER: Capacity-Building in the Spotlight at COP25: 4 Things to Watch

  • COP25
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • international climate policy
Community members patrol a forest in Vietnam, as part of a program that provides payment for healthy ecosystems. Building countries' capacity for monitoring and reporting on their climate solutions is an important part of the Paris Agreement. Photo by Asian Development Bank.
  • COP25
  • Paris Agreement
  • Climate
  • international climate policy